which, of course, need to be double-escaped so that the c compiler does not unescape them itself. they are unescaped at runtime by a library function.

markus

Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> > I think I will propose to support all of these in our library.
>
> How could a library support this? This is something in the core syntax of the language, and thus you'd need to change the compiler.
>
> If you don't have your own compiler, the closest fit you can achieve is writing an ad-hoc preprocessor to convert source code before is fed to the compiler.
>
> _ Marco